Volunteer Respite Manual: Creating Valuable Options for Family Caregivers

Drawing on the experience in volunteer services among ARCH network members, ARCH’s recognized Innovative and Exemplary respite services, and Lifespan Respite grantees and their partners, this step-by-step manual will help national, state and community-based programs and faith-based initiatives assess needs, plan, and implement volunteer respite programs with special guidance on providing volunteer services during a pandemic. It will also assist Lifespan Respite grantees and partners in building respite capacity through volunteer training and recruitment. Topics include: program planning and operations; volunteer recruitment, training and management; performance measurement; policies and procedures; liability and insurance; and marketing. You can download the manual...
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As you explore the ARCH Volunteer Respite Manual, you may find that you need additional resources and information to help you plan or implement your community volunteer respite program. We have gathered samples of job descriptions, volunteer application forms, orientation checklists, volunteer interview questions, background check forms, reference forms, policies and procedures, training resources and more. This list of resources will continue to be updated and new resources added as they become available.

Volunteer and Faith-based Respite Models

To find examples of volunteer and faith-based respite services, visit ARCH's Innovative and Exemplary Respite Services, and the ARCH Volunteer and Faith-based Respite Learning Collaborative.

See also ARCH's Respite and the Faith Community and Volunteer Respite: Roadmap to Resources.

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Respite in the Faith Community 2022

At a meeting of the ARCH Volunteer and Faith-based Respite Learning Collaborative, we learned about approaches to recruiting faith-communities and a volunteer drop-in respite model in an Alabama faith-community. Doris…

Conversations on Caregiving – Not free, but freely given

Podcast 1 – Not free, but freely given.      In this inaugural ARCH podcast in the ARCH series, Conversations on Caregiving, educator Mary Jo Alimena Caruso describes how she…

Arkansas Information for Volunteer Respite Provider

The Arkansas Lifespan Respite Coalition is pleased to offer this guide that may help alleviate some of the worries associated with taking a break from stressful and strenuous daily caregiving…

Volunteer Respite – Putting the Pieces Together: Implementation from Recruitment to Matching

Many statewide Lifespan Respite grantees and partners are interested in increasing the availability of and connecting family caregivers to volunteer respite providers. Learn how to support the development of evidence-based/evidence-informed…

Caregivers of Central Jersey – ARCP Volunteer Preference Form Prior to Family Match

Example from the Alzheimer’s Respite Care Program.

Brochure for Faith-Based Respite Ministry

From Alabama Lifespan Respite

Replication Manual: Lifespan’s Caregiver Respite Program

The intended audience for this replication manual may be governmental or nonprofit aging service providers seeking to fill a gap in services for family caregivers of older adults who provide…

Best Practices in Volunteer and Faith-based Respite

At a meeting of the ARCH Volunteer and Faith-based Respite Learning Collaborative, two State Lifespan Respite grantee partners shared best practices in volunteer and faith-based respite activities.  Elaine Whitford, Executive…

Volunteer Program Sample Policy on Harassment